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Long before Breath of the Wild, there was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It’s one of the best games (if not the best game) ever to hit the Nintendo64, solely because it featured a freaking ocarina with phenomenal magical powers.

There is mysterious power in these notes… to control your smart home, that is! Thanks to one intrepid tinkerer/Zelda fanatic, you too may soon be able to experience the wonder of Link’s ocarina your everyday life.

AAC writer Johnathan Powell investigated Dataplicity, a program that allows remote access to and control of Raspberry Pis. Check out his resulting experiments.

If you have ever worked with a Raspberry Pi, you have likely reached the point where you have wondered if the price and size of such a computer is really worth the massive number of cords and peripherals needed to use it.

One of the common uses for a Raspberry Pi is a low-cost information display, powering something like a magic mirror or an animated GIF photo frame. FullPageOS is a Raspberry Pi operating system that makes that process a little simpler.

When you’re working with connected devices or home automation projects on the Raspberry Pi, it’s important to lock down your Raspberry Pi so it’s secure. Over on Hackster.io, they show you exactly how to that.

Check out this great new project video from Make about building home automation with a Raspberry Pi & openHAB software! The project shows the basics of setting up openHAB on a Raspberry Pi to control a strip of NeoPixel lights from a HUZZAH ESP8266. This looks like a great base for DIY home automation with control from a phone app and much more. Check out the full video for more details–nice work!

Using the open source software OpenHAB, we’ll be building a Raspberry Pi touchscreen command center that can interface with over 150 different “smart home” products, and provide an interface for control and task scheduling.

We will end with using your phone to turn on and off wall outlets and power strip outlets from anywhere in the world with a phone connection, with each project costing about $50 a piece at the most, minus the phone.